[Poster] Interacting with your own hands in a fully immersive MR system

Tecchia, Franco; Avveduto, Giovanni; Carrozzino, Marcello; Brondi, Raffaello; Bergamasco, Massimo; Alem, Leila

doi:10.1109/ismar.2014.6948466

Cited by 20 publications

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“…This is also enhanced by the possibility of mixed reality where a participant in a VR can see their own hands incorporated into the virtual environment (Tecchia et al, 2014;Sportillo et al, 2015). 100 Immersive VR is also being used for automobile testing.…”

Section: Industrial Applications and Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

2016

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SUMMARYVirtual reality (VR) started about 50 years ago in a form we would recognize today [stereo head-mounted display (HMD), head tracking, computer graphics generated images] -although the hardware was completely different. In the 1980s and 1990s, VR emerged again based on a different generation of hardware (e.g., CRT displays rather than vector refresh, electromagnetic tracking instead of mechanical). This reached the attention of the public, and VR was hailed by many engineers, scientists, celebrities, and business people as the beginning of a new era, when VR would soon change the world for the better. Then, VR disappeared from public view and was rumored to be "dead. " In the intervening 25 years a huge amount of research has nevertheless been carried out across a vast range of applications -from medicine to business, from psychotherapy to industry, from sports to travel. Scientists, engineers, and people working in industry carried on with their research and applications using and exploring different forms of VR, not knowing that actually the topic had already passed away.The purpose of this article is to survey a range of VR applications where there is some evidence for, or at least debate about, its utility, mainly based on publications in peer-reviewed journals. Of course not every type of application has been covered, nor every scientific paper (about 186,000 papers in Google Scholar): in particular, in this review we have not covered applications in psychological or medical rehabilitation. The objective is that the reader becomes aware of what has been accomplished in VR, where the evidence is weaker or stronger, and what can be done. We start in Section 1 with an outline of what VR is and the major conceptual framework used to understand what happens when people experience it -the concept of "presence. " In Section 2, we review some areas where VR has been used in science -mostly psychology and neuroscience, the area of scientific visualization, and some remarks about its use in education and surgical training. In Section 3, we discuss how VR has been used in sports and exercise. In Section 4, we survey applications in social psychology and related areas -how VR has been used to throw light on some social phenomena, and how it can be used to tackle experimentally areas that cannot be studied experimentally in real life. We conclude with how it has been used in the preservation of and access to cultural heritage. In Section 5, we present the domain of moral behavior, including an example of how it might be used to train professionals such as medical doctors when confronting serious dilemmas with patients. In Section 6, we consider how VR has been and might be used in various aspects of travel, collaboration, and industry. In Section 7, we consider mainly the use of VR in news presentation and also discuss different types of VR. In the concluding Section 8, we briefly consider new ideas that have recently emerged -an impossible task since during the short time we have written this page even newer idea...

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Section: Industrial Applications and Designmentioning

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Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

2016

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“…Steinicke et al [21] chroma-keying to the user's body, presenting a virtual hands and body in an egocentric view of virtuality. More recently, head-mounted depth cameras have allowed for hand tracking such that virtual representations of hands or objects are now becoming feasible [22], while room-wide sensors such as the Microsoft Kinect allow for user tracking, gestures and physiological measures, all of which could potentially be used to augment virtuality with information about reality that cannot necessarily be captured from a head-mounted camera. There remains the question of managing this augmentation of virtuality i.e.…”

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A Dose of Reality

McGill

Boland

Murray-Smith

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We identify usability challenges facing consumers adopting Virtual Reality (VR) head-mounted displays (HMDs) in a survey of 108 VR HMD users. Users reported significant issues in interacting with, and being aware of their real-world context when using a HMD. Building upon existing work on blending real and virtual environments, we performed three design studies to address these usability concerns. In a typing study, we show that augmenting VR with a view of reality significantly corrected the performance impairment of typing in VR. We then investigated how much reality should be incorporated and when, so as to preserve users' sense of presence in VR. For interaction with objects and peripherals, we found that selectively presenting reality as users engaged with it was optimal in terms of performance and users' sense of presence. Finally, we investigated how this selective, engagement-dependent approach could be applied in social environments, to support the user's awareness of the proximity and presence of others.

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“…In [18] an RGBD camera is mounted on top of an HMD and used to provide a visual feedback of the user's hands. In [19], researchers use simultaneously 2 Kinects to create the full view of a human operator.…”

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“…Having acquired streams in the real workshop, and not in a purposely set up studio, many undesired features have been recorded that must not appear in the final render. For this reason we have developed dedicated tools enabling loading, editing, processing and mixing the streams (rendered as 3D meshes, after polygonalizing [18,29] the acquired depth maps) in a Virtual Environment, so as to achieve a particular experience of Mixed Reality, commonly referred as Augmented Virtuality (Fig. 5, left).…”

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An Immersive VR Experience to Learn the Craft of Printmaking

Carrozzino

Lorenzini

Duguleană

et al. 2016

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. This paper presents the AMICA VR system, aiming at exploiting immersive visualization paradigms enabling visitors to be physically and emotionally involved in a virtual experience conceived for the dissemination of the activities related to craftsmanship of printmaking. The developed platform aims at spreading a better knowledge about printmaking by appropriately using Interactive Digital Storytelling and Immersive Virtual Environments, exploiting their features in terms of presence, immersion, interaction and multi-modality.

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[Poster] Interacting with your own hands in a fully immersive MR system

Cited by 20 publications

References 9 publications

Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

A Dose of Reality

An Immersive VR Experience to Learn the Craft of Printmaking

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